[[Category: US President Direct Ancestor]][[Category: Northamptonshire]] [[Category: Henrico County, Virginia]][[Category: Henrico County, Virginia Colony]] [[Category: Bermuda Hundred, Virginia]][[Category: Gateway Ancestors]][[Image:Magna Carta Image one inch high.png66px]] Magna Carta Gateway Ancestor [[Image:Magna Carta Image one inch high.png66px]] This profile is being maintained by the [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Magna_Carta Magna Carta Project]. ''#profile:Prefix #profile:RealName #profile:LastNameAtBirth'' is a descendant of Magna Carta surety barons [[Albini-39William d'Aubigné]], [[Clare-651Richard de Clare]], [[Clare-673Gilbert de Clare]], [[Lacy-284John de Lacy]], [[Quincy-226Saher de Quincy]], and [[Ros-162Robert de Ros]].[[Category:Albini-39 Descendants]][[Category:Clare-673 Descendants]][[Category:Clare-651 Descendants]][[Category:Lacy-284 Descendants]][[Category:Quincy-226 Descendants]][[Category:Ros-162 Descendants]] ---- US Southern Colonist ----- == Biography ==Ancestor of [[Jefferson-1Thomas Jefferson]] 3rd US President As well as many others : [[Isham-12'''Capt. Henry ISHAM, Gent.,''']] was born 1627/28 in Northamptonshire, England.''Royal Ancestry'' ; ''Magna Carta Ancestry'': Father: [[Isham-13'''William Isham''']], Gent, of Little Harrowden, Northants : Mother: [[Brett-7'''Mary Brett''']] : Immigrated: abt. 1656 to Bermuda Hundred, Henrico County, Virginia.: Death Date: before 11 September 1677 For those who do not read footnotes, please note the date of death is per Richardson's Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, page 404.: Place of Death: Bermuda Hundred, Henrico County, Virginia. : [[Isham-12'''Henry''']] married [[Banks-68'''Katherine BANKS''']], widow of Joseph Royall, daughter of Christopher BANKS.: She died in 1686 in Bermuda Hundred, Henrico County, Virginia. (Will dated 10 Oct, proved 1 Dec.) : Katherine had several children with her 1st husband Joseph Royall: details on her profile. : Children of [[Isham-12'''Henry ISHAM''']] and [[Banks-68'''Katherine BANKS''']]:* Mary ISHAM, m. Col. William Randolph; they became grandparents of '''President Thomas Jefferson''' * Anne ISHAM, m. Francis Eppes * Henry ISHAM : '''Henry Isham's''' daughter, '''Mary''', married one of the first '''Randolphs''' to emigrate to Colonial America, and belonged to a family that had long been seated in Northamptonshire, and had retained its high social standing down to the present day, which is represented in the ''English Baronetage''. : '''Henry''' was a nephew of '''Sir Edward Everett''', who had been knighted by '''Charles I''' for brilliant services as an officer, and who by his will seems to have devised a considerable estate to '''Isham's''' two daughters.''Social Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century'' : His occupation was as an attorney in Virginia ''Survey of the Ishams in England and America'' == Sources ==:# Source: ''Pepys Diary'' URL: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/546/:# Source: '''Richardson, Douglas''' ; ''Royal Ancestry : A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol. III, page 404. :# Source: '''Richardson, Douglas''' : ''[http://amzn.com/1461045207 Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA462&dq=richardson+magna+carta+ancestry+pytchley+boxted&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lkZCVdvgGMfzUMW9gKgJ&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=richardson%20magna%20carta%20ancestry%20pytchley%20boxted&f=false Vol II, page 462], Henry Isham.:# Source: ''Survey of the Ishams in England and America: Eight Hundred and Fifty Years of History of Genealogy''. Compiled by Homer Worthington Brainard. (Rutland, Vermont., The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc.1938).:# Source: Bruce, Philip A., ''Social Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century'':# Source: ''Katherine Banks (1627-1686)''. Familypedia.wikia.com. Policy Content is available under CC-BY-SA. Accessed 29 January 2015. URL: http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Katherine_Banks_(1627-1686) :# Source: : ''My Heritage'' Record ID Number: MH:I500172* [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Colonial_Virginia Map of Bermuda Hundred]* [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=d1u8VKmaN4mbyQSBn4GwBw&url=http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Bermuda_Hundred_During_the_Colonial_Period&ved=0CCEQFjAC&usg=AFQjCNFgELipvaDzehXJ_9mSAlybWqHrpQ&sig2=kNRBEi1jv1QsZqW-Bm3s8Q Encyclopedia of Virginia: Bermuda Hundred During the Colonial Period] === Acknowledgments ===:* Isham-340 was created by [[Basinski-3Judy Basinski]] through the import of Rich-Cox Tree 8-18-14.ged on Aug 18, 2014. :* Thank you to Arik Russell for his contributions towards this profile on June 8, 2012.:* Thank you to [[Raber-23'''Lynden Raber Castle Rodriguez''']] for her contributions to the development of this profile on behalf of the ''Magna Carta Project'' January 29, 2015. ----